Sermonary is a browser-based sermon workspace for pastors that now describes itself as a sermon operating system: plan, study, write, present, and then look back with Recap, Insights, and Multiply.^1 It is built for the pastor whose week starts with a blank page and ends in the pulpit.
A preaching calendar lays out the year Sunday by Sunday, with open weeks marked and series dragged onto the Sunday they start.^2 In Study, cards curated from real commentaries and guides are tied to the passage or topic, with named sources, and can be filtered for outline, cross-references, exegetical and historical notes, application, and illustrations.^3 Write keeps the saved Study cards and Scripture beside the draft, in free-form writing or structured blocks for passages, points, illustrations, and application, with Review feedback before Sunday.^4 Present then shows that same sermon fullscreen, with a clock or time remaining and an optional recording.^5
After Sunday, Recap starts from a YouTube link, an audio upload, or the Present recording and reports filler and repeat words, pacing, and six content checks, including Gospel centrality, with timestamped coaching notes kept private.^6 The Library holds more than 2,000 series, includes the Ministry Pass library, and ships with the base plan.^7 Where AI helps, Sermonary says it works on what the pastor already wrote, tightening or clarifying a selected line, or it analyzes the sermon after it is preached; Study itself is not AI-generated.^1 Sermonary is subscription-based with a 14-day free trial, and a Team plan adds an automatic Sunday handoff brief and a team portal.^8
Justin Trapp and Wade Bearden founded Ministry Pass and Sermonary together to resource pastors in sermon preparation.^9 Bearden explains the gap they saw: "there's no sermon writing word processor that's designed specifically for pastors, so we created one."^9 Trapp, who calls himself a pastor advocate, says his team at Ministry Pass has built a library of more than 2,000 sermon series over twelve years.^10
"Sermonary is the way to go when it comes to sermon preparation. I'm super impressed with the development and customer service. I won't go back to writing sermons any other way!" - Jason Walters, Jamestown Christian Church^11
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